but little part, owing to the early supervention of imbecility and helplessness, and it is a greater factor in the better classes of society than in the proletariat. In the better classes, owing to the greater care of the cases and the avoidance of exciting causes of the attacks, the disease is better controlled and rarely advances to the extent that it does among the poor. The association of epilepsy and alcoholism is especially dangerous, for a slight amount of alcohol may greatly accentuate the disease. In five hundred and thirty-five children in whose parentage there were sixty-two male and seventy-four female epileptics, twenty-two were born dead, one hundred and ninety-five died from convulsions in infancy, twenty-seven died in infancy from other causes, seventy-eight were epileptics, eleven were insane, thirty-nine were paralyzed, forty-five were hysterical, six had St. Vitus's dance, one hundred and five were ordinarily healthy. That variations in the nervous system which produce more or less unusual mental peculiarities and which do not take the form of nervous disease are inherited, the most superficial consideration shows. A child in its mental characteristics is said to take after one or the other of its parents, certain habits and mental traits are the same, often even the handwriting of a child resembles that of a parent. In certain cases the inheritance is transmitted by the female alone. This is the case in the haemophilia, the unfortunate subjects of which are known as bleeders. There is in this a marked tendency to haemorrhage which depends upon an alteration in the character of the blood which prevents clotting. This, the natural means of stopping bleeding from small wounds, being in abeyance, fatal haemorrhage may result from pulling a tooth or from an insignificant wound. There is a seeming injustice in the inheritance, for the females do not suffer from the disease although they transmit it, while the males who have the disease cannot even create additional sympathy by transmitting it.